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  • 372 weeks
    Stupidity.

    Cross-post from Tumblr;

    Just a sketch.

    He’s supposed to vaguely resemble a humanized Dusk Shine, and the colors allude to that. The image is an abstraction for certain types of anxiety I tend to feel quite a lot.

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  • 408 weeks
    Sketching and the creative process.

    Sketching and the creative process.

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  • 411 weeks
    Recent Tumblr updates!

    So, there have been a few new posts to the Ask Asylum Twilight tumblr lately. A message from one of my readers via Patreon made me realize how foolish I was to let the tumblr slide in to inactivity in the way that it did. So I've been getting back in to the swing of things with it.

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  • 417 weeks
    New commission for Rated Ponystar!

    I've been working on this one for a while, and it is finally done!

    Rated Ponystar commissioned this comic a while back. Featuring Applejack and Rara/Coluratura. Looks like some AppleRatura is in their future!

    Enjoy!

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  • 418 weeks
    A few photographers that everyone should see pt. 1. Houses and flying plates.

    I really should blog more often. Anyway, since imgur is no longer an option for posting my own stuff on here, I'll just have to talk about something else until I settle on a better solution. So, I thought I would share some of my favorite photographers, because photography is an art form that needs more proper appreciation.

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Mar
22nd
2016

A few photographers that everyone should see pt. 1. Houses and flying plates. · 9:01pm Mar 22nd, 2016

I really should blog more often. Anyway, since imgur is no longer an option for posting my own stuff on here, I'll just have to talk about something else until I settle on a better solution. So, I thought I would share some of my favorite photographers, because photography is an art form that needs more proper appreciation.

In addition to architecture, one of my big creative interests is photography. It's a delightful practice and art form, one whose underappreciated nature leaves me a little torn. But for the purposes of this post, I will go with the part of me that thinks more people should be aware of good photographers. This post will present a few, though they are not being grouped in any specific manner. I just happen to like them.

First up, my current favorite, Todd Hido;

Hido has done several types of photography, but is most well known for his street photography. He takes photos of houses, at night, with uncanny, almost unnerving lighting effects. They have an air of mystery about them, and a hint of voyeurism. You wonder...what is going on inside? Who is in there?

He's managed to achieve similar effects with portraits and landscape photography as well. Emphasizing a cold sense of loneliness and distance from the subjects. The sense of being alone and isolated is really powerful in some of his landscape photos.

Also, a bit of trivia...one of his photos was used as the coverart for the Silversun Pickups album Neck of the Woods.

Given the quality of his images, it's unsurprising that he works in medium format.

Anyway, his work is worth checking out;

http://www.toddhido.com/


As are these interviews;
http://www.gupmagazine.com/articles/interview-with-todd-hido
http://www.ahornmagazine.com/issue_6/interview_hido/interview_hido.html




Next up, Thomas Jackson.

Jackson is mostly known for these unusual sculptural/assembled interventions in forests, on beaches, and in other remote areas. He arranges colorful objects and photographs them in such a manner as to make them appear as if they are floating and swarming in the air. Things like plastic cups, glowsticks, marshmallows, etc. He tries to avoid using things like photoshop, and opts for more direct methods of concealment, eliminating the need for a great deal of digital enhancement.

He also films videos of these constructions moving in different ways;

http://thomasjacksonphotography.com/video.html

They're quite amazing to look at.

http://thomasjacksonphotography.com/index.html

Anyway, that's it for now. I may do another post like this in the future, since there are quite a few more to examine!

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